Former King County Sheriff Dave Reichert appears poised to run for Washington governor as Republican

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5. Reichert botched the investigation early on.

https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/2010/10/12/5127209/mythbusters-dave-reichert-did-not-catch-the-green-river-killer

Frank Atchley, who supervised Reichert in the 1980s, told the P-I that Reichert "actually was more of an impediment to the investigation. He was probably the worst detective I've ever worked with," Atchley said. "He developed tunnel vision."

He's talking about Reichert's lock on one suspect: an ornery cab driver named Melvyn Foster. . . . He was so convinced of Foster's guilt, the task force focus disasterously excluded everyone else.

Including Ridgway, who our local media myth-makers fail to tell us, became one of the earliest suspects in the case, after an area woman accused him of trying to abduct and strangle her... the Green River Killer's signature M.O.

Nearly 20 years (and 18 more victims later) another detective finally compared DNA and named Ridgeway as the Green River killer. Then Reichert took credit even though he had botched the investigation years earlier.